On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 01:40:49AM +0100, olivier willemet wrote: > We could say that it offers a *software* RAID layer Yes > , compatible both > with the Promise and the HighPoint hardware RAID implementations. But it > does not make use of those hardware implementations. No. There is NO hardware support in either card!!!!! However there is bios support for booting from raid. > It works roughly like this : > - it offers the required interface for managing a new "ataraid" block > device > - it translates requests on this "ataraid" block device queue into ide > (ATA) requests to the disks composing the array. > > Is this right ? yes
